Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate...
by Animats on Saturday November 26, 2022 @04:07PM
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0.6 isn't much. I have 3 matches above 0.6, and they're not me. 20 or so over 0.5.
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Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate...
by input_sh on Saturday November 26, 2022 @04:35PM
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I get one 0.68 match, which... fair enough. It is an account I've abandoned some years ago, no secrets there.
No other hits above 0.5, so I guess that either makes me pretty unique as a commentator or my English is broken in a unique way.
Re:Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate...
by jsnell on Saturday November 26, 2022 @04:17PM
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That's why you manually evaluate the matches. And like I wrote in that comment, I did that manual eval, and these clearly are alts of that main account, not spurious. Narrowing down the pool of accounts you'd need to do this kind of manual evals for by a factor of 100000 is a pretty significant change in capabilities.